BRACHINID^. — LLBIA. 27 



beautiful, though small, insects, and are discriminated from the 

 other genera of this family, excepting Lamprias (from which they 

 may be readily known by the slenderness of the base of the an- 

 tennae, and the more evidently bifid penultimate joint of the tarsi), 

 by their transverse lobated thorax. 



Sp. 1. crux-minor. Plate I. f. 6. Niger', tliorace pedibus anten- 

 narumque hasi I'ufis, elytris rii/b-testaceis cruce nigra. (Long, 

 c. 3 lin.) 



Ca. crux-minor. Linne. — Le. crux-minor. Steph. Catal. No, 26. 



Head blacky punctate : thorax rufo-ferruginous : the elytra short, subquadrate, 

 sUghtly striated, with two minute impressed dots on the third stria from the 

 suture : in colour they are pale rufo-ferruginous : the suture is black, with a 

 large triangular spot at the base surrounding the scutellura, which is also 

 black : rather beyond the middle of the elytra is a broad slightly waved trans- 

 verse black bar, which expands towards the suture, and on the sides of the 

 elytra towards the tip, where it again joins the suture, forming a round un- 

 clouded spot at the apex : the breast and abdomen are black : the legs rufo- 

 testaceous, with the tips of the thighs and the tarsi dusky : the three basal 

 joints of the antennae and the base of the fourth are rufous, the rest obscure 

 black. 



This species still remains a desideratum to most collections, and 

 is apparently very rare. I have one specimen from the collection 

 of the late Mr. Marsham, and a male which was captured near 

 Windsor ; it has once been found at Coombe Wood ; and Mr. 

 Curtis mentions that Mr. BrightweU took one out of a tan-pit at 

 Lymington, Hants. Dr. Leach has obtained specimens from Bristol, 

 and the Rev. F. W. Hope found one upon sorrel, near Netley in 

 Shropshire, in August, 1824, 



f S2). 2. turcica. Niger, ore, antennis thoraceque ru/ls, ehjtris nigris 



lunula baseos pallida. (Long. c. 2^ lin.) 

 Ca. turcicus. Fabricius. — Le. turcica. Curtis, ii. pi. 87. — Steph. 



Catal. No. 27. 



Head black, strongly punctate and rugulose between the eyes : mouth, palpi, 

 antennae, and thorax rufo-ferruginous; the latter with an impressed line 

 down the middle, and slightly wrinkled transversely : the elytra black, with 

 a testaceous yellow irregular crescent-shaped spot at the base of the external 

 margin, and a narrow border of the same colour extending to the tip ; each 

 is adorned with eight nearly smooth striae and an abbreviated finely punc- 

 tured one near the scuteUum, and also two impressed dots near the third stria 

 from the suture. The breast is ferruginous ; the abdomen black, with an 

 ochraceous spot in the middle ; the legs are testaceous yellow. 



